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simonpreed··on So what does your product do exactly? ...and why should I care?
Hi Pete, I'm the author and defining the market straight away is a way for both customers and/or investors to empathise as early as possible.Of course you can leave that part out if you feel it's superfluous.

I'm glad you feel the footer does a better job of describing the product, that was written after this blog post :-)

simonpreed··on Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams
Choosing pricing plans was something we went back and forth with for a while. In the end we took a look at our prospective customer groups (agencies of varying sizes and freelancers).

Thanks for the feedback though it's something we'll definitely consider maybe just 2 plans a 'Freelancer' and 'Team'.

simonpreed··on Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams
Nice site, with Draft we wanted to focus more on organising the feedback on our designs as well as the annotation of our designs.
simonpreed··on Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams
The projects limit are the total you can have under your plan, your allowance isn't incremented monthly. So in your example if you require a third project you would have to either upgrade or delete a project.
simonpreed··on Some companies are best off without VC
what is your lifestyle business?
simonpreed··on Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
haha brilliant, what Yahoo needs is to buy more services that aren't even approaching break even. As brilliant as these companies might be at product as a public company Yahoo needs to make profit not promises ;-)
simonpreed··on The 4-Hour Dentist
No I found it very useful, i've lost a significant amount of weight and feel a lot better.

I do wonder why HN readers seem to dislike Tim's books so much.

simonpreed··on New "How Airbnb Works" video (shot at 13 locations around world)
Adam Lisagor (@lonelysandwich) - http://twitter.com/#!/lonelysandwich/status/2305705896208384...
simonpreed··on 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number
We're about to ship our site and this couldn't have come at a better time, very poignant post.

There's still a part of me that wants to wait for feature X before going live but I've started to realise this is just fear. Fear that it won't get the response we'd like but that's all it is, fear.

We're going to ship the product we've got and if it doesn't take then we'll keep doing what we love and iterating.

simonpreed··on Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
Use what makes you happy, building a startup will be have many more pressing questions than the choice of language. Trying to make sure you use a 'cool' technology is probably not going to worth the time.

Good luck.